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Good question Garys. Dropped merchants will not have to pay Morpheus a commission on hijacked links from their SE -e-mail and bookmark links. I assume their new program eliminated swapping Id# on all Linkshare coded links.

Wayne I dropped Amazon like a hot Potatoe 3 years ago when they shafted me (consulting fee) and some clients on private product e-catalog placement/fulfillment deals. I do not track Amazon stats and leave thta to the other ABWers who do quite well with them.

On the Amazon boards, Alexa/Amazon have said that the Alexa toolbar is not parasitic. Can you please point me to where there is evidence. I have Alexa installed and have ordered through my links and have gotten credit.

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Alexa opens up a panel to the left of your browser with book suggestions - this will not have your affiliate ID.

I don't think it is parasitic, but EagleFire (i think) pointed out that any sort of button that diverts traffic could be parasitic in his eys.
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Ahhh. The button. Yes, I see that - BUT I do not think there is any problem with the button. OK, we do not get commissions, but it is hardly parasitic. Someone is shopping at our site, clicks on a product and is taken to Amazon. They are hardly going to then click on the shop at Amazon button once there. &lt; OK, I know a few people might through lack of understanding but these people are the ones I doubt would have Alexa in the first place (too difficult to install [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img])